You can make really nice receiving blankets for just a couple dollars. I found this fabric on clearance at Hobby Lobby (my FAVORITE store), although the clearance price wasn’t as cheap as I wanted it, but I just LOVED the fabric, so I bought a couple of yards! We have FIVE babies due at our church and I may need to give this one away! 
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After washing and drying your fabric, cut it to the desired size.Press a 1/4" (or there about) seam back twice as to hide your raw edge,
do this all the way around.
Then use whichever stitch you’d like, just try to keep it straight.
Press again to make sure it is good and flat.
For this blanket I used some nice fun fur type yarn.
It was regular $4.00 and I got it for 99 cents! Can’t beat that! )
Any fun type yarn/string will work.
I used a small steel crochet hook, inserted it,
made a single crochet, chain 3,
made another single crochet about an inch over.
So the yarn is ‘looped’
but you can not tell because it’s fun fur! )
Now wouldn’t this be a neat receiving blanket for a family that had a farm? )
So keep your eye on the fabric on the clearance racks and
you can whip up a bunch of receiving blankets in no time for just a few dollars!
This one was made with a steel crochet hook and pink thread.
With purple fun fur.
Kathy
writer, video producer, wife and mother at Teaching Good Things
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Category: Crochet, Make It, Give It or Sell It!
Stephenie says:
Okay, I guess it’s because we raise chickens, but I absolutely LOVE this blanket! It is perfectly adorable and whichever sweet baby gets this blanket will be so blessed!
JenT says:
Those are so adorable. You know, one of these would make a great giveaway.
Youthful One says:
I’ve never seen receiving blankets with fun edges like these!
Really great and unique idea!
flutemom says:
these blankets are so cute. i’m just wondering though if the fun fur on the edges would cause problems if the baby gets it in his/her mouth?
Linda says:
Ok HOW do you get the hook through the fabric?? I have tried this before and even used the smallest sized steel hook and it was soooo hard to get through the fabric. Any hints/ideas?
Kathy says:
I use an 8 or 10 steel hook. The more layers fabric you have the harder it is to get through, more than 2 layers is tough.
Try wiggling your hook through one layer then the next. Just keep working at it.
Hope this helps.
Shirley says:
Hello,
Sorry to chime in so late… catching up on my reading this weekend…
Your blankets are wonderful. A relative made one for me when I was pregnant with my first… that blanket has been so durable and lasted through all three of my children (and is now in the cedar chest waiting to be wrapped around maybe a grandchild).
So now, these are my favorite gift to make for babies! One trick I have learned is that when using a heavy fabric (or maybe even just a tightly woven flannel) and it is diffictult to get the crochet hook through the fabric, I will do a ‘blanket stitch’ around the edge using the crochet thread. Then, I can do the first round of crochet using each stitch of the blaket stitch. Just be sure to make the blanket stitch as even as possible.
Another trick I use: I actually will use my pattern marking tracing wheel & paper to trace a ‘dotted line’ around the edge and then I know exactly where to place my needle (for the blanket stitch) or for the crochet hook if inserting directly into the fabric ~ perfectly spaced/sized stitches every time!
Thanks for all your wonderful posts…as you can see I enjoy them so much I can’t stand to miss a one even when I get back-logged on my reading!
Shirley